Chương 105: Goibniu's Shop

In the end, Cael did not immediately bring all the swordsmiths to Orario. The problem was simple. Hestia Familia still did not have a proper home. The hidden church basement could barely hold its current members. Bringing in dozens of swordsmiths would require lodging, workshops, furnaces, storage rooms, and a steady supply of materials. Without solving the home problem first, everything else would be wishful thinking.

The swordsmiths were disappointed, but they accepted the explanation after Kagaya and Haganezuka persuaded them. For now, the plan remained focused on the Dungeon. The next rotating party would consist of Cael, Lili, Kyojuro, Giyu, Tengen, and Shinobu. The combat core would stay at five, with Lili accompanying them as Supporter, and the Hashira would rotate in and out as needed. Shinobu was currently the weakest in direct combat, but she had pharmaceutical knowledge and the only healing Magic among them.

She wanted to study Orario's potions and improve her own medicine. The others were simple. They wanted to grow stronger. Before entering the Dungeon, the party went to Adventurers Way to buy supplies for the Middle Floors. At the same time, inside the Guild, Eina Tulle sat behind her desk with a perfectly expressionless face. Her quill moved rapidly across document after document. The other Guild employees could feel a dangerous aura around her.

No one knew exactly why she was angry, but everyone knew better than to disturb her.

"He did not come..." Eina wrote faster. She tried to bury her thoughts under work, but the more she worked, the angrier she became. Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. Misha leaned closer with a curious smile.

"Eina, are you all right?" Snap. The quill in Eina's hand broke.

"Why did something that big happen, and he still did not come to me?" Misha flinched.

"Ah."

"The whole of Orario is talking about it, but he did not even show his face at the Guild. I know I may not have been attentive enough before, but still... what does he mean by this?"

"Eina..."

"I am his advisor." Eina looked at Misha with sharp eyes.

"If something happens, he should consult me. What am I in his eyes? Does he take me seriously at all?" Her voice grew colder.

"I am angry." She stood up. The nearby employees immediately straightened.

"Supervisor, I am going on patrol."

"Patrol? But the paperwork..."

"If one missing staff member can paralyze the Guild's work, then the Guild has a management problem." The supervisor fell silent. Misha trembled slightly. Angry Eina was scary.

"If he will not come to me, I will go find him," Eina said, pushing up her glasses.

"I need to scold that willful idiot properly." Meanwhile, Cael and the others had arrived in the northeastern blacksmith district. The Goibniu Familia shop smelled of metal, coal, and oil. Goibniu examined the Nichirin ore Cael had brought and nodded.

"Ore that absorbs sunlight. Interesting. Its quality barely reaches third-tier material. One blade takes about an hour. Twenty blades can be finished by tomorrow."

"Thank you, Lord Goibniu." Cael paid the deposit without hesitation. Nichirin ore from the Demon Slayer world could absorb sunlight, but by Orario's standards it was still only third-tier material. That was enough to forge third-tier weapons, though not enough to make Goibniu personally handle every blade. Even so, having a smithing god accept the commission was already a bargain. After the deposit was settled, Cael suddenly heard a hum inside his mind.

He stopped and looked at the weapons displayed along the shop walls. Inside his inner world, the swords recorded by Unlimited Blade Works resonated faintly with the weapons outside. The weapons he could not record before were now within reach. It was not simply a matter of Level. His Magic value and understanding had finally reached the necessary threshold.

"Customers may look," the shopkeeper said.

"Just put the weapons back if you do not buy them."

"Lord Cael?" Lili asked.

"Why does Lord Cael want to look at swords when he already has the Hestia Blades?"

"We are also interested," Kyojuro said.

"Orario's swords are excellent, but I am used to the curve of my Nichirin Sword."

"The same for me," Shinobu said.

"My sword is thin and made for poison." Tengen and Giyu nodded as well.

"I am just looking," Cael said. Looking did not cost money. He picked up a second-tier sword from the shelf. The moment his fingers closed around it, its structure, weight, balance, and material flowed into his mind. In the silent space only he could see, an identical sword appeared. Cael's eyes brightened. He could record it. He could now record everything below first-tier into Unlimited Blade Works. If his Magic rose further, one day he might even unfold the true Reality Marble.

Cael calmly put the sword back, then reached for another. Your sword becomes my sword. No, that sounded too shameless. He preferred to think of it as research.